What+is+Schizophrenia?

=What is Schizophrenia? What does the name mean? Where does it come from? Who does it effect?=

Schizophrenia is a common disease,
effecting 1 out of every 100 people of the world. Normally adults, rarely children.

The ages normally seen with patients,
are the late teens to the early twenties, and the disease continues to effect the person throughout life, or until it goes into remission. There is also another time period for women when schizophrenia may show up which is around age 45.

The name Schizophrenia means,
Split mind in Greek, and the term was given to the disease by Eugen Blueler. It's original name was Dementia praecox which was given in 1887 by Emil Kraepelin.